After my death our beloved Church abroad will break three ways ... first the Greeks will leave us as they were never a part of us ... then those who live for this world and its glory will go to Moscow ... what will remain will be those souls faithful to Christ and His Church.~St. Philaret of NY

Comment: Anyone can decipher from this information, what you will. To me, it shows that the power elite structure, both in the Kremlin and in it's captive MP-church, are trembling with fear, fear of the massive discontent. 'Pat. Kyril-Gundaev' and his fellow MP leadership, are struggling to appear...as righteous and as on the side of truth and the people. Are they, really???

Could this all be just a face-saving act? a 'good cop/bad cop' routine?

Yet, anyway, we are seeing a certain ....crumbling... of the facade of lies and deceptions, but where it will lead? ...only time will tell I personally fear, a bloody crackdown.

Afterall, Putin has told us, that he admires Joseph Stalin.

And since he is blaming all the current unrest on 'foreign' troublemakers, ..........

ALL TOO DEEPLY POLITICAL and suspicious. One would have to be a fool to trust the parties involved. This is another struggle between ex-KGB officers and agents - which with factual data - describes Putin and the Patriarch.

Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate served a panikhida (memorial service) in Pyongyang for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who died on December 17, 2011, ITAR-TASS reports. Kim Jong-il was never baptized.

Two Korean priests, Frs. Theodore and John, who studied at the Moscow Theological Academy, conducted the memorial service. Present were Valery Sukhinin, Russian Ambassador to North Korea, with Russian colleagues, and Kung Sok-Ung, deputy foreign minister in charge of Russian affairs.

“Comrade Kim Jong-il left us too suddenly, too unexpectedly,” said Fr. Theodore. “The leader of our country has left this world, but his radiant image and ideas will forever remain with us,” he added.

5. THE UNILATERAL BOND OF THE LUNAR CALENDAR WITH THE JULIAN IN THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PASCHALION.

Having studied our Paschalion, we are irresistibly penetrated with awe at the ingenious work of the Alexandrian scientists who attained, in the Paschalion, an unalterable bond of the lunar with the solar Julian calendar. Alexandrian astronomers of the third century well knew the retardation of the Julian calendar from the sun. Nevertheless, they did not reject the Julian calendar, but wisely made use of its errors for a stable concordance with the lunar year, which lies at the basis of our Paschalion. The Julian calendar remains behind the true solar time, and the lunar one also remains behind together with the Julian calendar. “The lunar year is found to be eternally tied to the Julian one and a perpetual retardation of the former from the latter is not possible. The lag of the Julian year is equal to the lag of the lunar one. The equinox retards equally in both chronologies.”

The difference between the lunar and our Julian calendar does not exceed an hour and a half in the lapse of a thousand years. We can see for ourselves how all the Paschal full-moons calculated for thousands of years ahead in our Paschalion fall precisely on all the indicated dates of the Julian calendar, but do not at all coincide with the Gregorian calendar.

The unalterable tie of the lunar calendar with the Julian is made especially vivid by the following constant, periodical phenomena: we know that the lunar cycle equals 19 years while the solar cycle equals 28 years. Let us analyze these numbers by primary multipliers: 19=1x19; 28=4x7. What happens when we cross-multiply them? 19x4=76, i.e., that period of 76 years upon whose lapse the beginning of the lunar year coincides in precision with the beginning of the Julian one (as shown in chapter three).

Now, if we multiply 76 by 7, we arrive at 532, i.e., that period upon whose lapse, Pascha again occurs on the same days and months on which it was celebrated from the very beginning and during the whole length of the indiction.

In view of such a stable bond of the lunar year with the Julian, there can be no talk of any change from the Julian calendar, for otherwise there would unavoidably occur a violation of the entire well-formed and harmonious system of our Paschalion and the introduction of a great confusion in all Paschal calculations.

Sorrowfully, the light-minded experiment of changing the Julian calendar was made in Rome and now one can see its pitiful consequences. (It has made obedience to the holy canons, given to the Holy Church by the Holy Spirit, impossible for Rome which was forced, by the new calendar to abandon the canonical Paschalion).

FATHER GEORGIY TITOV AND PARISHIONERS ACQUIRE A NEW CHURCH BUILDING IN BARNAUL, RUSSIA

Father Georgiy Titov and his parishioners, whose church was confiscated by Russian Federation authorities at the instigation of the Moscow Patriarchate earlier this year after they joined ROCA, have acquired a new church building. They recently purchased a small house and added to it a vestibule, altar and cross. With the raising of the cross, Father Georgiy and the parish are awaiting the reaction of the authorities.

"Portal-Credo.Ru": After your actual expulsion from the church, the community is moved to the ROCA (A), you were building a new church. In what state is now building that has already been completed?

The priest Georgy Titov: First, what is our temple? This former summer house, purchased by us. We are to him built a sanctuary and narthex. Now there can fit person 100. They put a homemade primitive dome.

- You already have a cross on the dome?

- Yes. We are waiting for the reaction.

- Is the Church consecrated?

- No, the church was not consecrated. It's just we have erected a cross - I blessed the cross and all.

- What are your future plans?

- First, get through the winter and spring, God willing and if the finances will be - for us it is now the main thing - it would make the wall higher, raise them another meter and a half, we make a normal arch, so it was like a temple. And he overlaid the temple with a brick.

- And when are you going to consecrate it?

- It does not depend on me - it depends on the bishop. But we will make plans to do this after we raise the wall, when the church adopts a more thorough look.

- And now the service performed in the unsanctified church?

-Yes, but on [antiminse] it is possible to serve.. As far as I know, the ROCOR under Metropolitan Agafangel omophorion in most parishes so serve.

- How do the authorities react to all this?

- So far they have not pulled us. Today called the investigator asked questions, but the conversation was generally neutral in tone.

Wed: [21st] The doctors said that the hospital can not do anything useful for OVL so she is being transferred to a nursing home at 3000 N Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043. As I get more information I will forward it to you. She is not aware of her surroundings and is paralyzed on her left side. She can not swallow, so the feeding tube is still connected to her abdomen.

Tues: [20th] Tata, during lunchtime, visited baba Olga and sad to relate, OVL did not recognize her and did not respond to questions. Her sons are now trying to get space for her in the Turf Valley Nursing home. As more information gets to me I will pass it on. The doctors know OVL had a stroke, but do not know if it came

before or after her fall. Her left side is paralyzed and she still can not swallow.

Sun: [18th] I went to visit Baba Olia today at the Washington Hospital Center for an hour. Dima and Mia were there. She recognized me by name. Her brains are working well. Her mouth is dry and Dima and Mia were wiping her lips with water and her face with a cool washcloth which she greatly enjoyed. Her right hand has a mitten on it, so she doesn't pull anything out or punch people! I told her "nelzya zdes mordu bit nikomu!!" She has a hispanic young doctor who is very caring and nice and stopped by a few times to explain things.

Told her that Mishka was in the car and sent dog kisses, about the kadet luncheon yesterday organized by Nick Orekhov, who was there, that we drank to her health, described the kadet from North Carolina whom she remembered. Then I decided to stimulate her brains a bit by telling some anekdots. She laughed out loud incl. at one which is from her repertoire.

Father John Hinton arrived with communion. She enthusiastically nodded that she wanted communion. Then she started to cry - you could feel the depth of her spirituality. Like you say in Russian "the soul was speaking with God." I teared up a bit too. Fr. John read all the required pre and post prayers. She rec'd communion and then some anointing. She calmed down. Mia walked Fr. John out. We chatted a bit and I bid farewell. Explained to her that tomorrow is St. Nick's day and I was heading to church tonight and will put up a fat candle for her. She understood everything. Also told her to get well fast to be up and about for New Year's in 10 days.

Fri: [16th] Vova L. , Mitia and Katia Goncharoff and Kir visited Olga Vlad. L. yesterday. See seems to be better and recognized us and responded in a logical way to questions though her speech was difficult to understand each word. Instead of a nasal feed an abdominal tube was attached, but she looked better than two days ago, according to Vova. Thank you for your concern. O. V. L. agreed that partying is more fun than hospitals.

...forbid it, Lord, that we should be infiltrated or enter into a false union...

Our former ROCA priest from Ukraine

Hieromonk Arseny (Manko) and where is he now!

Category: Life and people, are STRANGE! ...and.... Only God, can we

fully trust, these days!

Read the Forum section of Met. Agafangel's blog,http://sinod.ruschurchabroad.org and the 20 plus, comments under his top current article, on the general subject of neo-pagan celebrations in Ukraine and Russia, etc.

And, as one reads down, in the comment section, one comes to a report (by an 'anonymous' commenter), of a recent grand celebration at the New York, MP Cathedral of St. Nicholas, where "Hieromonk Arseny (Manko)" played an organizing important role.

So, now we know where he, disappeared to! ...after he left our St. Xenia's Cathedral in Canada. Very sad!

A strange man. One wonders, if he was ALWAYS an agent of the MP, when he was in our ROCA-??? ...or just another confused person, lured by the money and power of the MP-? and of worldly-Orthodoxy.

Nun suing monastery says sisters harrassed her, killed her cats

“Harassment was extreme, flagrant and outrageous conduct on a continuous basis,” according to Victoria Ivantchenko’s statement of claim filed with Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Life in the monastery was “toxic” for former nun Victoria Ivantchenko. Her fellow sisters interfered with her private medical information, accused her of not eating in order to look slim, and even killed her adopted pet cats.

So are the details found in Ivantchenko’s $400,000 lawsuit against both the Sisters at St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery in Bolton, Ont. and the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto for “wrongful constructive dismissal.” (See Below)

Ivantchenko — reportedly a former ballerina who trained at “the top school” in St. Petersburg, Russia — says she was harassed by Mother Superior Anastasia Voutzali and other sisters, which eventually led her to unwillingly resign in May 2010.

Her case now hinges on whether or not she was ever considered an employee of the monastery — a claim disputed by Mother Superior who says monastic work is for God, and not a career.

But Ivantchenko says the Mother Superior “intimidated” her, “lessening her active involvement in the Monastery’s work, lessening her responsibilities, and into considering quitting from the monastery.”

In her statement of claim, Ivantchenko accuses the sisters of killing her adopted cats who lived on the monastery grounds; interfering with her medical information; falsely accusing her of losing weight in order to embarrass the monastery; intercepting her mail; and creating false bank accounts in her name to hide monastery money.

“Harassment was extreme, flagrant and outrageous conduct on a continuous basis,” according to Ivantchenko’s statement filed with Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

None of the allegations have been proved in court and the sisters deny any wrongdoing in a statement of defence.

Now, Ivantchenko wants the monastery and church to pay her salary for 14 years of service as well as damages for “injury to her dignity, feelings and self respect.”

An Ontario Superior Court Justice recently threw out a motion by the monastery and church to see the case dismissed, saying it will likely go trial. Ivantchenko’s lawyer, Norman Epstein, said he’s been served with a notice that they plan to appeal the decision.

Lawyers for St. Kosmas Aitolos and the Greek Metropolis declined to comment.

In a statement of defence, the sisters contradict the former nun’s accusations, such as the killing of cats. They say the cats roamed wild in the monastery’s rural area which is infested by foxes, coy dogs and coyotes. “Ivantchenko was well aware of this” and even witnessed two dogs kill a cat several years ago, it says.

They also strike down Ivantchenko’s notion of being employed at the monastery. “She did not resign as there was no position to resign from. Her to choice to leave was her own decision,” they claim.

“She was treated well by all of the other sisters in the monastery and was often given special attention.”

The documents also detail a rift between the monastery and Ivantchenko’s family, including her mother, sister, and brother-in-law, who also attended the congregation. According to the monastery’s statement of defence, Ivantchenko’s mother, Ludmilla Davidenko, was asked to leave the grounds and was “verbally abusing” the nuns.

Nun took a vow of poverty – but is suing for pay

Victoria Ivantchenko is suing the Sisters of St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery — including the Mother Superior — as well as the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto for “wrongful constructive dismissal.” The crux of the case stems from the question of whether Ivantchenko can be considered an employee at all.

It’s unclear why Victoria Ivantchenko left the monastery, but in her lawsuit she alleges slander, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of mental suffering.

By:Laura StoneStaff Reporter,Published on Wed Dec 21 2011

For 14 years, Victoria Ivantchenko lived as a nun at a Greek Orthodox Monastery in Bolton, Ont.

Now she wants to get paid for it.

A secular court must decide whether she, as a nun, was an employee of the monastery or a volunteer servant to God.

Ivantchenko is suing the Sisters of St. Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery — including the Mother Superior — as well as the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto for “wrongful constructive dismissal.”

It’s unclear why Ivantchenko even left the monastery, but in her lawsuit she also alleges slander, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of mental suffering. She is seeking damages and back pay.

“This is a unique case. It’s been a terrible ordeal for my client and given that she is a nun, the unpleasantness is very difficult for her,” said Ivantchenko’s lawyer, Norman Epstein, who declined to elaborate on his client’s history at the monastery for legal reasons.

The crux of the case stems from the question of whether Ivantchenko can be considered an employee at all.

A motion by the monastery and church to have the case thrown out without a trial was dismissed by Ontario Superior Court Justice Peter Lauwers. He said there wasn’t enough evidence on which he could rule, and the issues should be decided at trial. He also added he was “especially troubled by the profound ambiguity” of a January affidavit from the Mother Superior on the nature of the monastery.

Lauwers’ comments point to the difficulty in dealing with religious matters in civil court. Religious organizations vary widely in their practices on whether those serving them are paid as employees.

“Courts are reluctant to become involved in the internal affairs of a religious organization,” Lauwers said in his reason for the decision.

The lawyer representing the monastery declined to comment, and the lawyer for the Greek Orthodox Metropolis did not return calls.

According to the affidavit from Mother Superior Anastasia Voutzali, Ivantchenko came to live at the monastery on Feb. 26, 1996. Three years later, she became a “Rassaphore,” the second stage of her development as a nun. She left the monastery in May 2010 and began her civil suit that August.

“The obligation of a nun in this type of monastery is to strive to keep, for the love of Christ and for spiritual progress, the monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience,” reads the Mother Superior’s affidavit.

“Monastic work is for God and not for people. It is not a career.”

But for Ivantchenko, it appears it was.

She said she performed tasks that would be seen in the secular world as “work,” including sewing religious vestments and doing embroidery, for which the monastery received compensation.

The Mother Superior asserts that these tasks — including daily chores, tending to elderly or sick sisters, hospitality and crafts — fall within the ordinary responsibilities of a nun. She said the sisters in the monastery sign no contract, receive no salary or pay, and don’t take vacations.

“At no time was it stated, or implied, that she was working, in any way for pay,” she said.

But Ivantchenko’s lawyer argued that these activities show Ivantchenko is an employee for civil law purposes and is entitled to sue for wrongful dismissal.

In 2007, a case from the Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan also looked at the issue of nuns as individual employees and a religious corporation as the employer.

A group of adults who were abused as children by nuns at an orphanage claimed Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate, known as Sisters, was responsible for the conduct of individual nuns. Sisters, however, claimed as a corporation it did not have an employer-employee relationship with individual nuns.

In the end, the judge ruled a class action lawsuit could proceed against Sisters.

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VL AGAFANGEL PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Theotokos and all the Saints: keep our souls unharmed from the destructive influences of globalism, ecumenism, and sergianism, and give all of us the strength to endure the latest onset of persecution of the Church of Christ. Amen

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"I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”

St. John Chrysostom

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"If we have a good priest (or bishop), we give thanks to God. If a bad one, we endure him".

- old Russian saying

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"And here is something to which I would like to draw your attention to – something about which very many do not think about. Father Archimandrite Constantine, whom probably many of you know, the reposed editor of the journal “Orthodox Rus’”, a profound Christian mind, considered that the most terrible among all the achievements of the communists was that the communists created their own false-church, a soviet church which they shoved onto the unfortunate people in place of the genuine Church which went underground into the catacombs. Do not think that I am exaggerating or that Father Constantine was exaggerating!

Once, in the year 1918, a Pan-Russian Church Council was held. At this Council, the entire Pan-Russian Church together with its first holy hierarch, Patriarch Tikhon anathematized, excommunicated from the Church not only the theomachists and godless ones themselves, but also all those who would collaborate with them."

~St. Philaret of NY

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"To the Russians abroad, it has been granted to shine in the whole world with the light of Orthodoxy, so that other peoples, seeing their good deeds, might glorify our Father Who is in heaven, and thus obtain salvation for themselves. But if it does not perform this purpose and even abases Orthodoxy by its life, the Diaspora will have before itself two paths: either to be converted to the path of repentance, having acquired forgiveness through prayer to God and being reborn spiritually and to being capable of giving rebirth to our suffering homeland; or else being rejected by God and remaining in banishment, persecuted by everyone, until gradually it will degenerate and disappear from the face of the earth."

from Vladika John's report to the All-Diaspora Sobor in 1938

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The apostasy of our times, to a degree unique in Christian history, is proceeding not primarily by false teachings or canonical deviations, but rather by a false understanding of Orthodoxy on the part of those who may even be perfectly Orthodox in their dogmatic teaching and canonical situation. A correct "Orthodoxy" deprived of the Spirit of true Christianity—this is the meaning of Sergianism, and it cannot be fought by calling it a "heresy," which it is not, nor by detailing its canonical irregularities, which are only incidental to something much more important.

- Russia's Catacomb Saints

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Let it not be thought, however, that I affirm that it is necessary to prize every peace. For I know that there is a splendid disagreement and the most destructive unanimity. Yet one must love a good peace which has a good purpose: unity with God.

-St. Gregory the Theologian

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... To pious Christians the fact that the world has fallen into godlessness is to them obvious, and they are ready to see it as an unfortunate historical inevitability ...

Professor Viktor Trostinkov

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If you want to have assurance that you are saved, repent now that you are young and healthy and it is manifest that you left sin while you were still able to sin. But if you persevere in sin into your old age, why then you did not leave sin, but rather sin left you.

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

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Live in peace not only with your friends, but also with your enemies; but only your personal enemies, and not the enemies of God.

St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves

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Judge not according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment.

St. John 7:24

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"If Russia is not ressurrected, a new Golgotha threatens the whole world."

Priest Vladimir Evsukoff 1980†

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A man who does not express a desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust in himself, will never be linked to the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith and love for God and for all His saints. He will be cast out of their midst, as one who refused to take humbly the place allotted to him by God before all time, and to link himself to that latest saint (in time) as God had disposed.

St. Symeon the New Theologian

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SCOBA, to which world orthodoxy gives such great significance, reproaching us for not belonging to it, actually is in no way a canonical organ. The Russian Church Outside of Russia was invited to take part in these conferences; however, our Church refused to send representatives there after clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate were invited. "We never and nowhere will sit at one table with them; by this our spiritual communion with the Universal Church is not broken."

Archpriest George Grabbe 1969

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"Let us always thank the Lord that we are in the Holy Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which throughout the 80 years of its existence has trodden the straight, royal path of God, without ever turning aside and losing its way."

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The passions lying hidden in the soul provide the demons with the means of arousing impassioned thoughts in us. Then, fighting the intellect through these thoughts, they force it to give its assent to sin. When it has been overcome, they lead it to sin in the mind; and when this has been done they induce it, captive as it is, to commit the sin in action. Having thus desolated the soul by means of these thoughts, the demons then retreat, taking the thoughts with them, and only the spectre or idol of sin remains in the intellect. Referring to this our Lord says, 'When you see the abominable idol of desolation standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)... (Matt 24:15). For man's intellect is a holy place and a temple of God in which the demons, having desolated the soul by impassioned thoughts, set up the idol of sin. That these things have already taken place in history no one, I think, who has read Josephus will doubt; though some say that they will also come to pass in the time of the Antichrist.

Philokalia

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There are three things that impel us towards what is holy: natural instincts, angelic powers, and probity of intention. Natural instincts impel us, when, for example, we do to others what we would wish them to do to us (cf. Luke 6:31), or when we see someone suffering deprivation or in need and naturally feel compassion. Angelic powers impel us when, being ourselves impelled to something worthwhile, we find we are providentially helped and guided. We are impelled by probity of intention when, discriminating between good and evil, we choose the good.

Philokalia

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The outward Gospel of social idealism is a symptom of loss of faith.

Fr. Seraphim Rose

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Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge, ...

Philokalia

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Isn't Marx really the third of a trio with Darwin and Freud as a practical source in the war against revealed truth?

Fr. Seraphim Rose

Letters, 1972

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To: ROCA members from the MP

"You have to understand that you have long been in a false church, which implants in its members' souls, a false spirituality, which in turn takes root and grows stronger and stronger, the longer a man stays in it."

Bishop Athanasius, 2014

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Mankind has gone mad, and we see with horror the abyss into which it is being drawn. Let us lay aside every worldly care, and let us fall down in prayer and readiness for the dread Judgment of the Lord. Death will not come with bombs and poisons. Death has already come and take up residence with us and in us, and has made corpses of us, Mammon has overwhelmed this sinful world, which is dominated by Queen Science, Lucifer himself, which with one hand makes medicines and machines for man's foolish happiness and with the other terrorizes him by means of the bomb! Such is the sorry state of knowledge and the agony of the world through and through. Let us lift up our hearts.

-Photios Kontoglou (†1965) letter to Dr. Cavarnos dated 5/10/57

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"Psychopaths are a superior subspecies. We transcend humanity. We are Nature's Supermen. We deserve the subservience and availability of everyone around us. Luckily, every year 100-million people are born throughout the world. We have 100-million new choices every year."

-Sam Vaknin, self-realized psychopath

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Our Saviour placed the Church in the world in order to save the world, and Satan is always trying to place the world into the Church in order to destroy the Church.

attributed to Desert Fathers

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"If you see lying and hypocrisy, expose them in front of all, even if they are clothed inpurple and fine linen."

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